Machines



(No Model.)

G. L. TARR. GREEL FOR SPOOLING AND WARPING MACHINES.

= Patented Oct. 23,'-1883.

NxPETEni. Plwlo-uum hu. Washinglun. u. c

ATEN'I GARDINER L. TARR, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THEHOPEDALE MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CREEL' FOR SPOOLING AND WARPING MAC HiNES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 287,338, dated October23, 1883.

Application filed March 19, 1883. (No model.)

sachusetts, have invented an Improvement in f Creels for Spooling andWarping Machines, of which the following description, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on thedrawings representing like parts.

Crecls for warping-machines as heretofore made have been composed ofvertically-placed slotted standards for the end journals of the spools,and the upper ends of each pair of standards have been secured to onehorizontal board and the lower ends to another board, so that thestandards, once fixed to the boards holding them always remain in thesame positionwith relation to each other and at the same distance apart.

The object of my invention is to so construct the creel that onestandard of each pair of standards may be adjusted toward and from theother standard,t'o adapt the same to receive between them spools ofvarious lengths. To do this I have attached the upper and lower ends ofthe standards whichsupport the opposite journals of the spools toseparate independent boards, so that the said standards and boards maybe adjusted laterally with relation to each other, as will be described.

Figure 1 is a top view of a spool-holder embodying my invention, thetwohalves or sections thereof being shown, as adapted to spools ofdifferent length; Fig. 2, an end elevation thereof, looking at it fromits hinged or front end; and Fig. 3 a detail of the standards andspools.

The creel is composed of two like halves or sections, A B, hingedtogether at C, and,- being alike, I need to describe but one of them.The spools d have their journals d entered into slots in the standards 6f. The standards 6 are mortised or otherwise connected, respectively, atbottom and top with narrow boards 6 c and the standards f with narrowboards f 5 These independent boards 0 f and e f are adj ustablyconnected together by the braces herein shown as attached to the boardsf f and slotted at to receive the screw pins or studs h, over which areapplied nuts h. By.

adjusting toward and from each other the opposite members of the pairsof standards, the distance between the said standards may be readilyadapted to the length of the spool being used.

In the half or section Athe boards and standards are farther apart thanin section B, so the two halves A 13 show the creel. adjusted for spoolsof different length. The slotted 'plate g and screw-nut to hold it inplace constitute an adjust-ing or holding device 5 but I desire it to beunderstood that the adjusting and holding devices might easily bechanged in construction, and yet be within the scope of my invention. Inother creels the narrow boards 0 f have been made as one broad piece,and also the narrow boards 6 f.

A creel composed of standards cf, to support the journals of the spools,boards e e f fflconnected, respectively, with. the upper and lower endsof the said standards, and made adjustable toward and from each other,according to the length of spool to be employed, and devices for holdingthe parts in adjusted position, substantially as described' In testimonywhereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

GARDINER L. TARR.

Witnesses:

Gno. A. DRAPER, F. J. DUTOHER.

